Hey finally finished shaping. Glassing soon (glad someone else is doing it!)

This is beautiful, great lines. What a great mix surfboard creation/riding is. You create a work of art and then ride it. Like Da Vinci creating the Mona Lisa and then ridin...hang on though.. not exactly like that, but you know what I mean

It's 9'3" x 29.75" x 4.25".

Thanks for the mona lisa...

It's not entirely perfect but not bad for its size, bigger boards are a lot harder to sahpe in I am suprised how long it has taken me. I think it will float me ok DJ, its quite thick on the forward rail and quite wide overall. Time will tell but.

So u fully hand shaped it?

We did that with our first board and it does take awhile.

But we our latest ones we use AKU shaper.

The guy owns his machine only spends 20 minutes on the board shaping it when it gets off the machine.

So if u wanna save time if u make another one have a muck around on the program.

P.S Glassing is the best bit of it.

Thanks Ben Dover

My first board I had machined but felt embarassed telling people. My next board I did from scratch but made a hell of a mess, as I don't have a shaping bay. At the moment I'm designing a downwinder and I thought in order to save my marriage I better get it machined.

Clarky

Hang on I just remembered that most lathes can only do 12 ft

Scotty Mac said...

Yep its got v in the tail, maybe unable to see it in the photos.

Thanks Ben,
I acutally designed the outline on an old winsurfing board design program called DAT. I used the software to give me measurements of widths and i drew them onto the blank and temples to draw the outline. Other than that and an electric plainer, its all by hand. The guy that owns the shaping bay helped me with the concave and vee.
I would be interested in finding out more about the CNC machine and how much it would cost to have a blank machined?
Reagrds,
Scotty

I reckon the cost would be about the same for it to be machined on the CNC.

Yer we did templates on ply and traced them on.

It's fun but aye?

how do i get hold of guy with cnc machine ?

JPD said...

how do i get hold of guy with cnc machine ?

I don't know but i know how u can get hold of someone with a AKU Shaping machine. It's on there website of everyone that owns a machine.

Where abouts u live?

These are the AKU Machines in Australia

iSurfshapes, Sydney NSW
Woody Jack Surfboads, Gold Coast NSW
JS Industries, Tweed Heads NSW
McTavish Surfboards, Byron Bay NSW
Ocean Foam, Victoria NSW

Anyways heres a pic of me on my new board this morning.



I love how u can see all the buildings in the background up towards Surfers Paradise.

If you use BoardCad you will get access to more machines, there is a bit of bad blood with AKU and APS300.
Just search for BoardCad. It also works with Shape 3d lite which is another free surfboard design program as well as AKU or the olderAPS3000 which is not supported any more.
I have used DAT since Ver1 but stopped using it a few years back when APS 3000 became available. If you have BoardCad it will read and output to Shape3d lite and AKU. Each prog has some special features that the others don't, so depending on what I want to look at, depends on what I use.


Rod

Nice cutty Ben ...

boardbumps said...

Great cutty for a 33 inch wide board ben

Haha yer and its 5 1/2 thick

Yer just a little less thicker than ur head.